The mastadon, a cousin of the elephant and the ancient wooly mammoth, has been a focus of attention for researchers in the Yukon Paleontology Program of late. The researchers have discovered the creatures lived in a different time than has been thought.

What you need to know about the recent dolphin killings in Taiji, Japan. Is a mini Ice Age on the way? Cadbury wants to block Nestlé from trademarking the shape of KitKat bars. Learn more in this week's TopFinds.

The North American caribou, and in particular, the Woodland caribou found in the southern Canadian Rockies and northern America are already an endangered species. Now, there is concern over their specialized habitat disappearing, perhaps forever.

Winter is coming. For many of us, that means snow. Here in Canada, it’s inevitable. This time of year, Christmas-themed films are taking over television, but what about the films that allows us to embrace winter, without the yuletide?

Apparently the first adult female to be found, the fully-grown, one-ton mammoth had blood and well-preserved muscle tissue when found in the Siberian ice. This discovery comes amidst debates on whether extinct species should be resurrected using DNA.

New evidence in the longstanding debate over what caused extinction of Neanderthals suggests that competition with early members of modern human species who migrated from Africa and not major climate changes caused extinction of Neanderthals.

A team of scientists say that high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could prevent the next Ice Age. The scientists say that even if carbon emissions stopped today, enough has accumulated in the atmosphere to prevent the next Ice Age glaciation.

The oldest known artist in North America may have been a hunter during the Ice Age. An anthropologist is making that claim after examining an etching on a 13,000-year-old bone found near Vero Beach, Florida.

No observable sunspots in the month of August correlates to a paper by two astronomers refused in 2005 by the journal Science for being too controversial. And is a possible signal of an Ice Age on the way. Not global warming!

In the Dordogne region of southwest France, lies a cave that houses Ice Age art dating back some 17,000 years ago. The walls and the art on them are now being consumed by bacteria and an unidentified black fungus.

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University of Calgary archaeologist Sonia Zarrillo (right) is pictured here at a research site in a Peruvian rock shelter. She is accompanied by Peter Leach, one of her co-authors for a new paper to be published in the Oct. 24 edition of the academic journal Science.